Training Curriculum and Program Guide

Training Curriculum and Program Guide on Suicide Detection and Prevention in Juvenile Detention/Correctional Facilities and Residential Programs 2013 is NOW AVAILABLE

April 29, 2013, Mansfield, MA: The National Center on Institutions and Alternatives (NCIA) announces the availability of the Training Curriculum and Program Guide on Suicide Detection and Prevention in Juvenile Detention and Correctional Facilities and Residential Programs is the most comprehensive and up-to-date instruction on suicide prevention in juvenile facilities. The 190-page manual is contained in a three-ring binder and accompanied by a CD containing 163 PowerPoint slides.

This Curriculum is designed to equip direct care, security, medical, mental health, and education personnel with a comprehensive understanding of suicidal behavior as it relates to the facility environment of a detention center, training school, and/or residential treatment center. It includes a discussion on juvenile suicide research, guiding principles to suicide prevention, why facility environments are conducive to suicidal behavior, staff attitudes about suicide, potential predisposing factors to suicide, warning signs and symptoms, identification of suicide risk despite the denial of risk, high-risk periods, components of the facility’s suicide prevention policy, instruction regarding the proper role of staff in responding to a suicide attempt, critical incident stress debriefing, and liability issues.

The manual is also a Program Guide and provides facility administrators a virtual blueprint for development and/or revision of suicide prevention programs. Eight critical components to a suicide prevention program are outlined in detail — staff training, intake screening/assessment, communication, safe housing, levels of observation/management, intervention, reporting, and follow-up/morbidity-mortality review.

The Training Curriculum and Program Guide on Suicide Detection and Prevention in Juvenile Detention and Correctional Facilities and Residential Programswas developed by Lindsay M. Hayes, an NCIA project director, and a nationally recognized expert in the field of suicide prevention within jails, prisons and juvenile facilities. Mr. Hayes conducted the only national study of juvenile suicide in confinement for the U.S. Justice Department, has been appointed as a federal court monitor in several juvenile correctional systems under court jurisdiction, serves as an expert witness/consultant in juvenile suicide litigation cases, and conducts training seminars and assesses and juvenile suicide prevention practices in various state and local jurisdictions throughout the country.

COST

The cost for the Training Curriculum and Program Guide on Suicide Detection and Prevention in Juvenile Detention and Correctional Facilities and Residential Programs is $199, including shipping and handling. The 190-page manual is contained in a three-ring binder and accompanied by a CD containing 163 PowerPoint slides.

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